I'm a game designer and my main area of expertise is that, game design. While i find the technical aspects of a game program interesting, I expected finding game design related questions when selecting the "design" tag.

Shouldn't the technical and "end user" aspects of designing a game be under their own separate tags?

I'd agree that design is used inappropriately in most of those questions, but I don't think that's an argument for new tags, I think it's an argument for the descriptions of the tags to be clearer, and for the mods to guide the re-tagging. Design, covering both game-design and level-design, and Architecture, covering software-design.
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MrCrankyAug 6 '10 at 10:03

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Well what I would like to do is simply rename design to game-design, and start retagging "engine design" questions as architecture. level-design as a tag was just an afterthought. Other than that tag I'm not suggesting any new tags.
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Tetrad♦Aug 6 '10 at 17:01

I like the specificity created by having game-design and level-design as separate tags. People are always going to be tempted to just use the Design tag, so like @MrCranky said I think it's really going to be up to people capable of retagging to go through those questions and tag appropriately (if not done by then, I'll do it when I get home). As far as synonyms/merges for architecture/engine-design and what else I am not that deeply involved on that side to make any real judgement about it.
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Noctrine♦Aug 6 '10 at 17:06

In that case should all non-game design posts under "design" be moved to architecture? Or should a more specific tag be added? I'm noticing that the word "design" can also interpreted sometimes as graphical design. A more specific tag might be welcome.
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Balthazar AugerJul 22 '10 at 22:09